Russia & Central Asia

For seventy years, the Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir has been divided between the warring South Asian neighbours India and Pakistan. Since both acquired nuclear weapons in 1998, the Line of Control which forms a truce line between…

On 21 April, Ukrainians overwhelmingly voted for change. Volodymyr Zelensky, a successful TV producer and actor with no previous political experience, won a landslide victory against an eloquent, but old-fashioned oligarch, incumbent…